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convex. The legs are shorter and more robust; thighs large ; forder 

 tibiae rather broad, curved outwards at the tip, intermediate and 

 hinder tibiae ahnost straight; first tarsal joint as long as the two 

 following taken together. 



Cyclocranium Swierstrae v. d. Poll, n. sp. 

 (PL 13, fig. 1). 



Head black, shining, with a faintly impressed line along the 

 middle; exceedingly minutely punctured, except a smooth space 

 just behind the eyes. Antennae black, with a small basal portion 

 of the scape and the 3rd — 9th joints as well as the entire second 

 joint fulvous. Prothorax nitid reddish-brown in the lower parts ; 

 the elevated parts blackish ; the inflated disk is divided by a 

 deep longitudinal impression; finely and sparingly punctured. 

 Elytra nitid, the basal portion reddish-brown , the remainder black, 

 the convex apical porlion velvety shining according to a thin silvery 

 pile and a very dense punctuation; each elytron ornated in the 

 middle with a swollen ivory stripe directed somewhat obliquely 

 towards the suture and above this an other less distinct one, 

 oblique in the opposite direction , these markings forming together 

 a somewhat x- shaped figure; the basal half is very finely indis- 

 tinctly punctured. Underneath reddish-brown with the abdomen 

 and the prosternum in front black , the breast ornated on each 

 side with a stripe of white haii's, dii'ected obliquely towards the 

 middle; the legs blackish-brown with the base of the thighs 

 rufous. 



Length 4 — 7 mm. - - Habitat: Victoria. 



I dedicate this interesting species to the memory of my late 

 friend Mr, K. N. Swierstra , the 7,ealous and obliging entomologist 

 of the Royal Zoological Society «Natura Artis Magistra» at Am- 

 sterdam, who died on 18 April 1891. 



APHNEOPINAE. 

 Aphneope quadrimaculata v. d. Poll, n. sp. 

 (PI. 13, fig. 2). 

 Dull pale blown, head and thorax blackish; antennae rufous, 



